Project title: Integrating food provision in urban policies in the context of land use transformation and displacement
Project number: PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0588
Contract no.: PD 5/2020
Funding body: Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
Budget: 246.950 RON
Period: 2020-2022
Research team:
Simona-Raluca Grădinaru – Project coordinator
Cristian Ioan Ioja – Mentor
Central hypothesis and objectives
The central hypothesis of the FoodPLand project is that (1) public authorities are mandated to propose and implement policies which integrate food security on the urban agenda. For selecting the best integration strategies, a good understanding of both (2) local land use transformations and (3) amplitude of land use displacement is needed. Such assessments would allow to (4) determine the capacity for food provision of urban regions, findings which serve for designing tailored urban planning strategies.
These four interlinked dimensions are the foundation for the specific objectives of the project:
O1. Evaluate the current integration of food security in urban policies at European and national level;
O2. Assess the direct and indirect land transformations induced by urban expansion in Romania.
O3. Evaluate the amplitude of land use displacement in Romania,
O4. Estimate current and future capacity of Romanian urban areas for food provision.
Main results
Articles
Work in progress
Conferences
- Grădinaru S.R., Iojă C.I., Gabriel Ovidiu Vanau, Niță M., Integration of food security issues into county planning agendas, International Geographic Seminar Dimitrie Cantemir, 24 octombrie 2020, Iași.
- Paraschiv M.G., Iojă C.I., Grădinaru S.R., Evaluarea impactului potențial al abandonului terenurilor asupra securității alimentare a orașelor din România utilizând imagini satelitare și tehnici de machine learning, Present Environment and Sustainable Development, 21 November, Iasi.
Reports
Work in progress